She hardly knew whether she wanted a place in the library, a clerkship at Washington, or the post of amanuensis to the young millionaire.
To face the matter squarely: the friendship between them did not mean as much to Purdy as to him; the sudden impulse that had made the boy relinquish a promising clerkship to emigrate in his wake--into this he had read more than it would hold.
Eventually--so it is said--he took a clerkship in the railway service.
At his father's desire he accepted a clerkship in a Government office, which left him leisure for his musical pursuits.
The next morning he received notice of his appointment to a clerkship in the Treasury Department, at a salary of nine hundred dollars.
He suggests an eighteen-hundred-dollar clerkship for you.
Good gracious, was that Chance--that madman that threw up hisclerkship at the F.
Do you think it really the truth that he was insane enough to throw up his clerkship at the Foreign Office which would have kept want from him, at all events, and from his wife?
Many a one deemed that Isaac Hastings, in a worldly point of view, had done well in quitting the uncertain prospects offered by the Church, for a clerkship in the house of Godolphin.
Thomas Godolphin had admitted him to a clerkship in his house, and Layton had married, and appeared contented to live quietly.
The clerkship left in the New York post-office when the Colonel departed for the war has been retained for him.
My father obtained me a clerkship in the Rhode Island Cloth Hall, but manufactures were long depressed, and its directors resolved to close its affairs, which deprived me of a situation.
A clerkship in my counting–house, which I am just about to open, having formed a very snug little connexion to begin with.
The suavity, moderation, dignity and wise diplomacy of Cæsar led him by sure and safe steps from a lowly clerkship to positions of gradually increasing responsibility.
Antony laughed at the stripling, and thought to bribe him with a fete in his honor and a promise, and in the meantime a clerkship where there was no work to speak of and pay in inverse ratio.
They discharged Mr. Wallace from what we'll call a second-class clerkship yesterday afternoon, and they now fill the vacancy by the promotion thereto of his friend Sercombe from the shops.
Bacon held the reversion to this Clerkshipand in a long letter to Egerton he discusses in detail the nature of the 'claim'd fees'.
In 1597 he was busy with the reform of some of the abuses connected with the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, and this is probably what Donne has in view throughout the Satyre.
He went at once to Grassy Plain, a few miles northwest of Bethel, where he managed to obtain a clerkshipin the store of James S.
During those years George Peabody had emerged from a clerkship into a Businessman.
Robert Owen resigned hisclerkship and invested all of his earnings in three mule spinning-machines.
A clerkshipat Hong Kong having become vacant by death, the Postmaster-General has, on my recommendation .
This year (1850) my only son was nominated by the Postmaster-General to a junior clerkship in the Secretary's Department.
He was the son of a draper in the Edgware Road, and his father failing, he had to be content for a niche in life with a lower clerkship in the Civil Service.
He graduated in 1860, at the age of eighteen, with the first honors of his class, having lost a year during which he took a clerkship in the Macon post-office.
Before I left, he said a clerkship was at the disposal of my son Thomas; but Thomas is clerk in the conscription service, getting rations, etc.
De Bow was offered a lower clerkship by Mr. Secretary Memminger, which he spurned; Fitzhugh accepted the lower class clerkship Mr. M.
By her dexterity he sold the clerkship of his parish, when it became vacant.
We have seen that he was holding one clerkship or another in Ireland during all this time.
It has been said already that he did not resign his Chancery clerkship until 1588.
As he resigned his clerkship in the Court of Chancery in 1588, and was then appointed, as we have seen, clerk of the Council of Munster, he probably went to live somewhere in the province of Munster that same year.
I can easily get a clerkship with the assistance of my friends; and with that and my wife's income, we can manage honestly to face the world.
No more holidays, no more advances of money, had I: on the contrary, the private clerkship at 150l.
The fifteen-hundred-dollar clerkship was gone forever, but Daniel had chosen the right road to fame and prosperity.
Shortly after his patron's death, the poet found a new friend in Lord Cockburn, who procured for him a junior clerkship in the office of the Inland Revenue, Edinburgh.
I might get a clerkship at a couple of pounds a week, but that doesn't strike me as preferable to my present position.
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